Is religion a blessing or a curse?What made u religious or an Atheist?

Answer 1

Religion is nothing more nor less than a membership in a political party. You're free to vote (act) however you like, the religion/party only asks for some loyalty and donations. Some people drink the damned KoolAid(R) and become fundamentalists or raving talk show hosts. Most do not.

I drank the KoolAid(R) but got the antidote (education) in time to prevent serious permanent harm.

Answer 2

For the most part, religion is more of a curse then a blessing. It has killed so many people and caused so many wars in the past.

I am religious, but I don't follow a mainstream or organised religion. I don't have a holy book or scriptures, I just follow my heart. I don't doubt that there is some Divinity out there, I just don't know what it is, and I'm not presumptous enough to name it. I'm not Christian because of absusive clergy members that have wreaked havoc on my family, and the damned church which shelrtered them and found them new jobs. By christian standards, yes, I am an atheist. And proud that the church will never get another cent from me.

Answer 3

I believe in alot of ways religion is both blessing and curse. Think of all the things that happen because people have faith (in their God or themselves) and all the people killed in the name of God (be it allah, jehovah or what ever the preferance).
I believe in being Spiritual over religious. I beleive what hakes scense to me.
My mom exposed me to many religions and it made me wonder why so many people hate people of diffrent religions. They all have about the same basic beliefs, just little things they do different. I'm eclectic, that means I take this and that from diffrent religions and have my own hodge podge. I like studying and practicing different things. In the end I am worshiping the same god, just using different names and ways to do it. I believe there is good in many different religions and there is bad. Religion should make you feel comfortable, and give you peace and make you a better person, not make you scared, mad, confused, and angery.
I think alot of people become Atheist, not because they don't believe in a God (or Gods and goddesses, or supreme being), but because they disagree with what religions are teaching (hate others who don't believe what you do, if you don't follow us you burn for eternity, etc).
Some people who are Atheist are actualy Agnostic (believe in a supreme being just dont put a name on it or a particular religion).
The more I study the more I wonder if there really is a God, or if there is just a spark or force that we have turned into the divine. The saying goes if a God did not exsist, humans would make one up.

Answer 4

Why is your question so black & white? So people are either religious OR completely atheist? How shallow.

While I enjoy being free from any organized religion, I am not an atheist. I have found that while there is NO evidence of the existence of a supreme deity, I cannot also undeniably prove that nothing exists. For example, is Buddhism correct in that we are all just part of the same universal energy?

I am not agnostic in the traditional sense, in that I'm not simply waiting for the "right god" to show up. I don't believe in any of them; I'm free. But on to your question.

Karl Marx said it best: "Religion is opiate for the masses."

It makes a lot of people happy and lets them lead a good life, but it's not for everyone. I am not wrong for disbelieving in your religion, whatever that may be, and likewise I don't think you are wrong for believing what you will.

Where I have issues is when Christians (because they are the ONLY ones that do it) tell me I AM wrong, that I'm a bad person with no moral structure, that I'm going to hell, and that I'm stupid for renouncing their religion.

Religion is what you make it, and it should only be applied to YOUR life, not everyone else around you.

Answer 5

I think religion is largely a curse, unfortunately because of human nature.

So many people seem to rely on the Bible as the "word of God", but it's a book, a book passed down through the generations by human beings.

Ever play the "telephone game", where you have a line of people and you tell one person a story at one end, and they pass it along to the other end? The story can change dramatically from the point of origin.

I think that if a God truly crafted the Bible, it's probably been warped by self-righteous people over the many years who have their own agendas and their own beliefs about what parts of religion should become mainstream.

Answer 6

I like to question everything, and there isn't a single religion which is based on rational logic or reason, so i just didn't join a religion.

This same questioning of everything has recently lead me to become more of an agnostic than an atheist, because there is just no way to be 100% sure that there is nothing beyond our current understanding of the universe.

Answer 7

religion is a curse for those who don't accept what they are fed blindly. i wanted my faith to be genuine, but every day i got bombarded with things that contradicted my beliefs and made them seem unreasonable in the big picture of life. this made my life a nightmare because i had to constantly keep Reading stuff that would support my beliefs to convince my self that this is actually the truth. but once i rejected my faith, i felt freedom, i lost the fear and the need to keep justifying my self when in reality it didn't ever make sense, i lost the guilt, and the depression from my deeply ingrained fear of hell. now i feel freedom for the first time, and my beliefs are not shaken every day since i don't have to defend a book that was written thousands of years ago. Being an atheist is great because you have all the factual evidence on your side, and every day new discoveries only make my belief stronger.

Answer 8

I was always confused and conflicted and sad because I just never got the "faith" thing... as much as my parents tried to instill their religion in me, as much as I tried to accept that "truth" and just believe, my thought process is (and always was) too logical to just accept that something is true just because a book says so. Yet I had that shred of doubt for many years, what if they are right and I end up in hell because I just can't believe something that doesn't make sense? It took a long time and much contemplation (and some help from an atheist friend) for me to come to terms with the fact that I am and always have been an atheist, I just couldn't deal with that word because I was raised to believe that atheism is evil. I am a much happier person now that I've shaken loose the shackles of religion, I have my own morality and my own philosophy that I've come to on my own terms.

Answer 9

Religion is the World's biggest curse. Looke at all of the people who have died for their religion.

Spirituality should be the biggest blessing.

I'm not religious, I'm spiritual.

Answer 10

John Lennon said to imagine a world without religion. He realized that there have been more atrocities comitted against fellow humans in the name of religion than anything else. The little good that religion does with their charities cannot compensate for all the evil and wickedness that has befallen the world on account of religion.